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The spatiotemporal conjunction is a fundamental aspect of the juridical reflection on the historicity of law. Despite the fact that it seems to represent an issue directly connected with the question of where legal history is heading today, it has still not been the object of a focused inquiry. Against this background, the book´s proposal consists in rethinking key confluences related to this problem in order to provide coordinates for a collective understanding and dialogue.

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Agüero, Alejandro
is Professor of Legal History at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), researcher of the Argentinian National Research Council (CONICET), member of the Institute for
Research in Legal History (INHIDE - Buenos Aires) and member of the group HICOES (HIstoria COnstitucional de ESpa¤a). His research has focused on history of Spanish criminal justice in colonial context. His current research is concerned on the transition from colonial institutional order to the republican era in Argentina (19th century). Among his works: Castigar y perdonar cuando conviene a la República: la justicia penal de Córdoba del Tucumán, siglos 17. y 18., Madrid, 2008.

Barrientos Grandon, Javier
is Academic of the Chilean Academy of History and correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy of History. After having taught at the Diego Portales University of Santiago (Chile), he is now researcher "Ramón y Cajal" of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has devoted his research to legal history of Hispanic America, and currently focuses its work on the history of codification. He is the author, among others books, of Historia del Derecho Indiano. Del descubrimiento colombino a la codificación (Roma, 2000), El gobierno de las Indias (Madrid, 2004), and Historia del Código de Comercio de la República de Chile (Santiago de Chile, 2015).

Beck Varela, Laura
is Associate Professor of Legal History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). She accomplished her PhD studies in the European Doctoral Programme of the University of Seville (Spain) and the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (2008). She is a member of the international research group HICOES (HIstoria COnstitucional de ESpa¤a). Her main research fields include history of private law (property rights, family law), history of legal education, book history, censorship and diffusion of legal literature between the early modern and the nineteenth century. Among her works: Literatura jurídica y censura: fortuna de Vinnius en Espana, Valencia, 2013.

Solla Sastre, María Julia
is associate professor in legal history at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and belongs to the study group HICOES (HIstoria COnstitucional de ESpa¤a). Her research has focused on history of Spanish judiciary. Her present research interests deal with administrative law traditions and with Spanish colonial law. Among her works, a particular stress must be laid on La discreta práctica de la disciplina. La construcción de las categorías de la responsabilidad judicial en Espa¤a, 1834-1870, Madrid, 2011; also, Ultramar excepcional. La construcción de un espacio jurídico para Espa¤a y sus colonias, 1837-1898, in: Rechtsgeschichte 23 (2015), 222-238.

Meccarelli, Massimo
is Full Professor of Legal History at the Università di Macerata (Italy) and affiliate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. His studies are
devoted to the history of juridical thought and history of justice, on topics concerning legal theory, public law, criminal law, legal spaces. Among his works: Le Corti di cassazione nell´Italia unita. Profili sistematici e costituzionali della giurisdizione in una prospettiva comparata (1865-1923), Milano, 2005; The Assumed Space: Pre-reflective Spatiality and Doctrinal Configurations in Juridical Experience, in: Rechtsgeschichte 23 (2015), 241-252.

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